Coronavirus (COVID-19) Local News

Parks Canada has suspended visitor services in all national parks, national historic sites and national marine conservation areas across the country until further notice.

Clipper Vacations will suspend its passenger ferry service between Victoria and Seattle until May 20 — three weeks longer than it had previously planned.

Singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing missed out on a golden opportunity when his concert scheduled for this weekend at the Dave Dunnet Theatre — which was nearing a sell-out — was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

The federal government’s economic measures Wednesday were the most decisive moves in the war against the personal and financial perils the country will face in the first weeks of the pandemic.

Pharmacies in B.C. have been overwhelmed since Monday, when the health minister announced that pharmacists will be able to refill prescriptions without an additional doctor’s note.

Not all health-care workers are required to self-isolate after returning from international travel, which has some people concerned about the risk of spreading COVID-19 to patients and other health-care professionals.

Jill Walgren grew up in Victoria and attended the University of Victoria, but since late 2002, she has been working as a teacher in Hong Kong, where residents got a seven-week jump in the battle against COVID-19.

At most of the decision points so far in the crisis, governments started in the relatively moderate range of options. Every time they did that, they adjusted to the extreme level quite quickly.

Cool Aid is no longer taking donations of any goods, including clothing or food, in a bid to reduce the chance of transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transit agencies across Canada, including B.C. Transit in Victoria, have adjusted operations to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. Jonathan Dyck, B.C.